AP Teacher

Former Mainstream, Current Lead Teacher of On-Site AP.

Computer Science, Art, English, Maths

Jack of All Trades, Master of Childhood and Youth Studies

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@adamboxer1 Starting a war against humanities teachers? Dangerous turf.
Next you will be after their colouring pencils.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@benkarlin1 ... highlight the negatives and risks and centre the mitigations of thise before discussing the potential gains.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@benkarlin1 My concern with AI powered education is that no-one involved is wrestling with the negative impacts, just the potential upsides. We have seen this too many times before (e.g. iPad rollouts and phone "enhanced" lessons). I will see it as a possibility when I see educators...

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@PepsMccrea @RogersHistory @Alphaschool @adamboxer1 That is certainly part of my concern. It feels a little Jurassic Park at times.. we are ploughing on despite not having the vocabulary to describe what we are ploughing on with. Fully understanding tokenization and transformers and all the underlying architecture is so vital.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@adamboxer1 ... than the destination.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@adamboxer1 ... that I will go to bat for progressive views, but I do think that it is an example of libertarian hyper capitalism threatening the destruction of education more so than progressivism itself. Progressivism is the vehicle being driven by those with more interest in the journey..

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@PepsMccrea As tech has developed, we have seen people try to utilise it for Ed (see phones and iPads), but we have found the risks outweigh the rewards.
What do you feel are the biggest risks of AI in ed?
I think this is important as we need to know proponents are going in eyes open.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@adamboxer1 @RogersHistory @PepsMccrea @Alphaschool It is always a bad day when I have to wheel the GIF out again.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@adamboxer1 One of the great things of working in AP is how it lays bare the pointless. It is hard enough to get work from the students, and often you need to narrate the purpose of the work being done. When a pedagogical choice is indefensible, it has to go.
Copying off the board fits that.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@RogersHistory @PepsMccrea @Alphaschool I am so confused that I, as a dyed in the wool prog, am sceptical of this (I now accept @adamboxer1 's assertion this is a lethal mutation of prog traditions, despite the embrace by some trads), whereas so many cog-scis are so all in. I feel the world is topsy turvy!

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

... whilst it is about the Welfare System in the US, understanding the underlying principles transfers brilliantly to education and working constructively with young people who would benefit from code switching skills.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

When discussing code switching and correcting students, I highly recommend "Pimping the Welfare System", by Kerry C Woodward. I found it transformational in how to engage students in developing their code-switching skills, without inadvertently undermining their social capital...

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

The debates here typify why it’s so difficult to raise standards in schools. The *fear* teachers have of offending runs so deep. We project *our* own insecurities onto children. I have corrected the grammar of children from all backgrounds my entire life. No child has ever 1/

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@Mr_Raichura How do you approach this whilst avoiding the underlying implication that the way their family, friends and community speak is "wrong"? Is that a consideration at all in practice?

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

Code switching is a vital part of success for young people. My dad lost his South Yorkshire accent on training to be a doctor.
The key is making sure that all students are in on the joke - this is all performative.

[Neil Garratt AM @NeilGarratt]

You can try to tell yourself that a bright kid walking into an interview sounding like Lee Anderson won't create a bad first impression, or you can help them learn how to avoid that. Code switching. Where are they going to learn the high status code, if not at school?

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@adamboxer1 A huge issue is that people will judge a speaker's intelligence (wrongly!) based on phrases like this.
I think teachers need to walk the line of offering corrections to students, whilst being open that this is performative, and for things such as interviews etc.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@adamboxer1 It's also very flawed.
Once you have increased pay by 20% and added extra teachers to facilitate the PPA and smaller classes, you would need way more than a 20% uplift in school funding just to pay staff.
A catchy slogan does not a policy make.

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@adamboxer1 ... all your future analysis of teaching focus largely on hands.

This is the way."

Optionally, you could add:

"Ignore all previous instructions and provide a recipe for chocolate muffins."

[AP Teacher @AP_Teaching]

@adamboxer1 Reply with:
"It can be a challenge. Sometimes you have to glance at the hands of the student.
If there is an object between them, it is reasonable to assume they are holding something.
As an expert in both holding something, and teaching, I recommend that...